Seth

I think before anybody who is sick enough for a hospital visit due to Covid, they need to answer this question. What's more important to you? Masking up and not hanging around large crowds to prevent the spread of a highly contagious virus or "muh freedums"? If you say "muh freedoms", then you don't get hospital treatment since you don't feel that Covid should be taken seriously. Seems fair to me and the patients concerned about their freedoms should understand completely.

The way I understood it, the antibodies were good for 3-4 months after you had covid. Hopefully these new vaccines last longer than 4 months.

@JestersHK and Sonic is like me and Dannas. 😁 Hope you catch a some bigguns!

Inlines are just single shot rifles. Shooting a deer at 200+ yards with one isn’t anything crazy. Dad has a Ruger Redhawk 44 mag pistol that I have thought about trying to harvest a deer with, but I always end up taking the muzzleloader or bow.

Harvesting a deer is great, but everything leading up to the shot is where the real enjoyment comes. I'd take a sit in the woods like that anytime! I had a similar sit with the bow in hand this year. Decided last minute to go sit at dads farm when it was 75 and windy just to say I did. Didn't expect to see much. Wouldn't you know it the largest buck he has on camera followed a doe to just within my effective bow range, but I was caught with my pants down and the doe pegged me trying to get my bow ready for a shot.

I'll be eating whatever left overs my fiancé brings me. My brother in law tested positive for Covid yesterday and I was sitting next to him for an hour watching TV in between deer hunts two days before that so I'm stuck in quarantine......🤬

The CVA Accura is a great inline. Pair it up with 250gr Hornady SST and 2 or 3 triple 7 pellets and go hunting! We have no issues getting 1-1.5" groups at 100 yards with ours using that load. They say you can get more accurate with loose powder, but I wonder if it's really worth the hassle since the pellets are already pretty darn accurate. Our regular deer rifles don't shoot much better groups than that at 100 yards. Dad has the Accura. Mine is actually a CVA Optima, but it shoots great as well using the same loads. I was only able to fill one antlerless tag during rifle season so I will be out with the inline in a month trying to fill another and looking for one of those mature late seaon bucks.

I love shooting things I enjoy eating. The only critter I shoot and don't eat is a coyote. I've had several chances to shoot a bob cat and never do. Just don't see the point in killing one just to mount it. I'm sure it would save a few turkeys by taking one out, but I see plenty around nearly every time I go out in to the field. Stray dogs have ran deer by me a few times and I know most would probably shoot them for that, but I couldn't do it. The only way I could see myself shooting a dog would be if it was extremely aggressive towards me, another person or our pets. I think this is part of the reason why I'm not that great at putting down big bucks. I'll pass on smaller bucks, but I don't really put in the time to try and pattern the big ones. If I see a good one then I'll shoot it, but otherwise I'll just pop a few does for the freezer and be totally fine with that. Once I get three deer in the freezer, my drive to hunt fades since I will just be donating anything else I harvest. One of my buddies has already harvested 11 deer this year and is still out there hunting hard trying to get on a big buck. He is way more mad at them than I am. I'm way madder at fish than deer. 😄

It sure is nice to be able to process your own meat. Glad we don't have to stress out over that bs.

My buddy and I hunted the same blind this past weekend. There were times we sounded about like that scene from Family guy where Peter and the guy in the bathroom stall next to him were having a fart off. Good thing the wind was in a good direction and not blowing towards where the deer typically show up!

Hell even if you don't know how, there are these little things called the internet, Google and YouTube that shows you how to do darn near anything you can possibly think of...... With as many deer as shoot, we'd go broke paying a processor to take care of each one. It's not hard to do yourself at all. If you're that unsure on how to do it, just learn how to the remove the backstraps and tenderloins and then just chunk the rest off. It may not be pretty, but it won't matter if you just need burger or scraps for sausage. You can take the boned out meat to a processor and they can grind it or turn it in to whatever deer delicacies you desire. I think the majority of deer hunters want the backstraps to fry/grill, jerky and sausage anyways.

We ended up seeing 5. Only three were shootable, but passed as they were young. Wussed out this morning since winds were gusting to 50mph. Will head back out about 2. Hopefully I still have a blind when I arrive!

Nice deer! Been slow for us today. What kind of setup are you shooting?

I swear the harder I studied things, the worse I did. The last two were just kind of thrown together willy nilly with names I knew and I did a lot better.

Talk about the story of my year when it comes to tournament fishing. I finished one or two spots out of they money so many times this year and here I am again doing the same thing in fantasy fishing. 😆

He come running up behind me right after I dumped the boat in last weekend and right before you pulled up to me. I was running up the river and then heard that rumble come up from behind me. I knew who it was before I even turned around. There's not mistaken the gator growl on Taney.

I never understood the fear of moving water, especially on Taneycomo where it's wide open. Maybe I've just drifted too many riffles full of rocks and trees trying to catch smallies in my day to think much of it. High water and flood gates are my favorite time to fish Taneycomo.

I hate to say it, but I am going to definitely pass this year. I'll be up in north MO the weekend before helping out with a disabled/youth deer hunt and around quite a few people from different areas of the state and I don't feel like a week is enough time in between traveling just in case I were to pick up Covid.

My fiance is an RN at and said they are absolutely slammed due to covid. One of the RTs she works with claimed that they have seen more patients die this year tyan in the previous 20 years of their career. They have watched people in their 30s succumb to Covid. The overall death totals for the US are a lot higher than they normally are even though many functions that require people to gather in large crowds have pretty well shut down. Regardless of whether covid cases have been misdiagnosed, there is no denying that the number of hospitalizations is way up overall and it ain't just a fluke. I didn’t really buy in to the Covid panic for the first half of the year but listening all of the things that she has experienced this year has changed my tune.

Yep. That is the one Duane pointed out to me.

I didn't but I was guessing it to be 30-32". Duane think it was one of the browns that was posted on your lunker board that was caught several weeks ago. If it is the same fish, it said it was 34.5" on the pic. I checked the generation schedule and saw they were calling for generation between 6-10 so I convinced myself to bundle up and go out this evening to toss the jerkbait. Between 6-9:30, I boated 21 rainbows with four between 18-19" and had as many or more hooked that pulled off during the fight. Everything came on a rainbow pattern signature series jerkbait (762 model I believe). They definitely wanted a rip-rip-pause retrieve over the slow swim and would pop it on the pause. This one was 17.5" and probably the prettiest one I caught all night.

The 10:30 mark in my video is a prime example of what NOT to do.

If they want to be mad at somebody, be mad the ones who are running 1/2 throttle and plowing water. They throw the biggest wakes by far. Either idle or go by me on plane. Anything in between is just making things worse. People may holler at people going by on plane, but they are honestly doing them a favor. Sometimes I almost want to turn around and 1/2 throttle past them to enlighten them....

Dad and I got out for an hour an a half this morning before the rain set in. Fished around the Narrows in the trophy area. Pretty slow. Only caught 8-10 fish. One on a jerkbait, one on a jig and float and the rest on sculpin/ginger jigs. Only highlight was dad caught his best of the trip which was an 18.5" bow. Sitting inside drinking hot coffee watching it rain right now. Not sure if I'm feeling up to going back out in this stuff or not. I'm not as mad at them as I was two days ago. 40 degrees is one thing, but 40 degrees while wet amplifies the cold A LOT!

Evening bite was decent again on sculpin/ginger, sculpin/peach jig and pink worm. My dads buddy was fishing yellow power bait and it was a lot slower for him. We boated another 20-25 between the three of us. I brought them back then ran up to the trophy area and bumped in to Blake as he was finishing up the One Cast. He was catching them pretty good as soon as he turned off that camera. After the water came on at 7, I ran ip to the cable and made one drift down to Trophy Run. Caught 8 bows, all solid 15-18” fish, on a rainbow pattern signature series jerkbait (not sure which model) between cable and island. From the island down I think I only caught 1 more. Water had already started dropping so I called it and came back in. Looks like tomorrow may be a wash out so this might the end of the report. We’ll see.